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Far Fetched Facts
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Author : Richard Rottenburg
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2009-04-17
Far Fetched Facts written by Richard Rottenburg and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-17 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A fictionalized ethnographic study of development aid in sub-Saharan Africa that focuses on technologies of inscription in the interactions of development banks, international experts, and local managers. In 1996, the sub-Saharan African country of Ruritania launched a massive waterworks improvement project, funded by the Normesian Development Bank, headquartered in Urbania, Normland, and with the guidance of Shilling & Partner, a consulting firm in Mercatoria, Normland. Far-Fetched Facts tells the story of this project, as narrated by anthropologists Edward B. Drotlevski and Samuel A. Martonosi. Their account of the Ruritanian waterworks project views the problems of development from a new perspective, focusing on technologies of inscription in the interactions of development bank, international experts, and local managers. This development project is fictionalized, of course, although based closely on author Richard Rottenburg's experiences working on and observing different development projects in the 1990s. Rottenburg uses the case of the Ruritanian waterworks project to examine issues of standardization, database building, documentation, calculation, and territory mapping. The techniques and technologies of the representational practices of documentation are crucial, Rottenburg argues, both to day-to-day management of the project and to the demonstration of the project's legitimacy. Five decades of development aid (or “development cooperation,” as it is now sometimes known) have yielded disappointing results. Rottenburg looks in particular at the role of the development consultant (often called upon to act as mediator between the other actors) and at the interstitial spaces where developmental cooperation actually occurs. He argues that both critics and practitioners of development often misconstrue the grounds of cooperation—which, he claims, are moral, legal, and political rather than techno-scientific or epistemological.
Far Fetched Facts
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Author : Neil Rennie
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1995
Far Fetched Facts written by Neil Rennie and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.
4e de couverture: Far-Fetched Facts is an essay in the history of the literature of travel, real and imaginary, from classical times, via the early accounts of the New World, to the accounts of the South Sea islands that lay beyond. It follows continuities from the Odyssey to the twentieth century and traces the interplay of fact and fiction in a literature with a notorious tendency to deviate from the truth. The late medieval travels of the imaginary Mandeville and the real Marco Polo are explored, and the writings of Columbus as he struggled to reconcile what 'Mandeville' and Polo had written with what he found in the West Indies. The philosophical consequences of the discovery of the New World are followed in the works of Montaigne and Bacon, and the factual travels of Dampier are placed in relation to the fictional travels of Crusoe and Gulliver. The various accounts of the scientific voyages of Cook and Bougainville are examined and their revelation of a Tahiti more mythic than scientific, erotic as well as exotic. All the factual accounts of the mutiny on the Bounty are assessed, and also the fictions that came in its wake. The supposedly factual narrative that is Herman Melville's first novel is read in relation to other travellers' accounts of the South Seas, as are the factual and fictional writings of Loti, Stevenson, Malinowski, Mead, and the Hawaiian Visitors Bureau. Far-Fetched Facts is the first full account of the Western idea of the South Seas as it evolved from the lost paradises of biblical and classical literature to end in the false paradise found by the tourist.
Far T Fetched Facts An Intellectual Bathroom Reader
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Author : Swaying Cat Books
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-30
Far T Fetched Facts An Intellectual Bathroom Reader written by Swaying Cat Books and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-30 with categories.
"The Goodyear blimp is the official bird of Redondo Beach, CA." "Velociraptors were no bigger than a modern turkey." "The Queen owns all the swans in England." +150 more facts and MORE in FAR(t) FETCHED| An Intellectual Bathroom Reader Book Features Premim High Gloss Cover 100 Pages of interesting facts 5"X8" "pocket size" 150+ facts that you won't believe are true 40 facts you thought were true but ARENT! +10 BONUS bathroom related jokes Great book for stocking stuffer, secret santa, or any gift to make your buddies and family laugh. Keep this book in your back pack, purse, or right by your toilet! Whip this book out at your next party for a fun conversation starter. Ideal for adults and kids alike (ages 13+)
Philosophical Standardism
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Author : Nicholas Rescher
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2014-02-25
Philosophical Standardism written by Nicholas Rescher and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with Philosophy categories.
Now in paperback, Philosophical Standardism is ideal for bringing one of the field's preeminent scholars into the classroom. In this novel empirical treatment of fundamental issues in philosophy, Nicholas Rescher propounds an unorthodox approach to philosophical doctrines that is predicated on the idea of standardism.
Against Facts
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Author : Arianna Betti
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2015-07-10
Against Facts written by Arianna Betti and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-10 with History categories.
An argument that the major metaphysical theories of facts give us no good reason to accept facts in our catalog of the world. In this book Arianna Betti argues that we have no good reason to accept facts in our catalog of the world, at least as they are described by the two major metaphysical theories of facts. She claims that neither of these theories is tenable—neither the theory according to which facts are special structured building blocks of reality nor the theory according to which facts are whatever is named by certain expressions of the form “the fact that such and such.” There is reality, and there are entities in reality that we are able to name, but, Betti contends, among these entities there are no facts. Drawing on metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and linguistics, Betti examines the main arguments in favor of and against facts of the two major sorts, which she distinguishes as compositional and propositional, giving special attention to methodological presuppositions. She criticizes compositional facts (facts as special structured building blocks of reality) and the central argument for them, Armstrong's truthmaker argument. She then criticizes propositional facts (facts as whatever is named in “the fact that” statements) and what she calls the argument from nominal reference, which draws on Quine's criterion of ontological commitment. Betti argues that metaphysicians should stop worrying about facts, and philosophers in general should stop arguing for or against entities on the basis of how we use language.
The Spirit In The Word Facts Gathered From A Thirty Years Ministry
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Author : William Weldon Champneys (Dean of Lichfield.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1862
The Spirit In The Word Facts Gathered From A Thirty Years Ministry written by William Weldon Champneys (Dean of Lichfield.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1862 with Pastoral theology categories.
Brute Facts
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Author : Elly Vintiadis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2018-10-25
Brute Facts written by Elly Vintiadis and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-25 with Philosophy categories.
Brute facts are facts that don't have explanations. They are instrumental in our attempts to provide adequate justifications for other facts or phenomena. Brute facts inform many people's views about the structure of the world, and are part of philosophical interpretations in metaphysics and the philosophy of science. Yet, despite the considerable literature on explanation, the question of bruteness has been left largely unexamined. The chapters in Brute Facts address this gap in academic thought by exploring the central considerations which surround this topic. How can we draw a distinction between facts that can reasonably be thought of as brute and facts for which further explanation is possible? Can we explain something and gain understanding by appealing to brute facts? Is naturalism inconsistent with the existence of (non-physical) brute facts? Can modal facts be brute facts? Are emergent facts brute? This volume brings together contributions by authors who offer different answers to these questions. In presenting a range of different viewpoints on these matters, Brute Facts engages with major debates in contemporary philosophy concerning modality, naturalism, consciousness, reduction and explanation.
Virtual Voyages
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Author : Paul Longley Arthur
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2011-10
Virtual Voyages written by Paul Longley Arthur and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era of European maritime exploration, these bizarre and captivating tales, with their wildly imaginative visions of antipodean inversion and strangeness, reveal a hidden history of attitudes to colonization. By exposing the relationship between myth and reality in the antipodes, this book casts new light on the power of fiction to influence history. In the post-colonial studies field, books about travel writing and empire have tended to focus on the high period of nineteenth-century imperialism and on the colonial settings of Africa and India. This book offers a fresh perspective by focussing on the eighteenth century, and referring to the geographical region of Australia and the Pacific, which has had far less attention. The book also breaks new ground by being the first to approach the genre of the imaginary voyage from a post-colonial perspective. In addition to the new insights into European colonialism that it offers, the book illustrates many broader themes in eighteenth-century history and thought. These include connections between the rise of science and modern imperialism, the development of narrative history and fiction and the influence of romanticism, the evolution of the early novel in Britain and France, and the role of mythology in the development of national identity.
The Inner World And Beyond
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Author : A. Hyatt Verrill
language : en
Publisher: eStar Books
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The Inner World And Beyond written by A. Hyatt Verrill and has been published by eStar Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Omnibus edition contains the following titles: The Mummy of Ret-Seh, The Inner World, The Treasure of the Golden God, The Psychological Solution
Awards Of The First Division
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Author : United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
language : en
Publisher:
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Awards Of The First Division written by United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Arbitration, Industrial categories.